Near here is the Land That they call Life. You'll know when you arrive By how real it is. Give me your hand. God speaks to each of us, Rainer Maria Rilke
Read MoreHoly Week: Is God there? Is faith real?
no soul is rested Til it is emptied of all things That are made. When, for love of Him, It is empty, The soul can receive His deep rest. For he is our very rest, Julian of Norwich
Read MoreHoly Week: Where am I from? Where am I going?
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. Rumi
Read MoreLent: Christ's receptivity with persistence
The divine will is a deep abyss of which the present moment is the entrance. If you plunge into this abyss you will find it infinitely more vast than your desires Jean Pierre de Caussade
Read MoreHoly Week: Do we matter?
A new life requires a death of some kind; otherwise it is nothing new, but a shuffling of the same deck. Roger Housden
Read MoreHoly Week: Does putting others first really make a difference?
Conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Hamlet, Act III, scene i
Read MoreHoly Week: Does the will of God mean life for me?
It is impossible to accept the death of the soul unless one possesses another life, outside of the soul's illusory life... in the hands of our Father who is in secret. Simone Weil
Read MoreLent: Coming and Going
Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.” John 8:21
Read MoreLent: Action and Authenticity
"No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do." John 7:4,6
Read MoreLent: Weddings and temples
We see in this passage two very different and vivid pictures of Jesus.
Read MoreLent: Come and see, taste and eat
“You must sit down,” says love, “and taste my meat.” So I did sit and eat. George Herbert, Love (III)
Read MoreGod’s own Lamb
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. John 1:29
Read MoreInto the desert
At once the Spirit sent Jesus out into the desert
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